Headdress Designs appearing in Haute Couture Collection -Focused on 2010 S/S~2015 S/S-

Haute Couture, Haute Cuisine, Haute Games

Computer games provide a unique opportunity to experience intangible fantasies and create engagement with emotions which are able to be played out in real-life. Artists speak of engagement, computer game players speak of transformation and immersion. They are all viewing images with their own personal narratives informing their participation. These personal narratives arise from the information...

From Roman Garments to Haute-couture Collection with the Fashionizer Platform

This paper presents a state of the art in the cloth simulation methods and two case studies on how to simulate ancient and high fashion garments with our new Fashionizer platform. The first application concerns the simulation of garments in a cultural heritage project, the Lifeplus project, where we had to simulate in real-time ancient roman clothes. The second application is the simulation of ...

Inventory Model with Seasonal Demand: A Specific Application to Haute Couture

Reframing Haute Couture Handcraftship: How to Preserve Artisans' Abilities with Gesture Recognition

Computer gaming has often represented a fertile ground for the implementation and testing of novel and engaging humancomputer interactions systems. Such phenomenon has occurred first with mice and joysticks and keeps on going, increasing in complexity and realism, with body-based interfaces (e.g., Wii, Kinect). Now, many fields and applications could benefit from these advances, starting with t...

Collection-focused Parallelism

Constructing parallel software is, in essence, the process of associating ‘work’ with computational units. The definition of work is dependent upon the model of parallelism used, and our choice of model can have profound effects on both programmer productivity and run-time efficiency. Given that the movement of data is responsible for the majority of parallelism overhead, and accessing data is ...